On 20 February 2013 18:38, Ari Jolma <ari.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just the last few days I've worked on the support in the GUI for using the > WMS and WFS drivers in GDAL. For WMS I made a completely new dialog box but > for the WFS I added it into the Open vector data dialog - it already had > support for PostGIS data so non-filesystem datasource was not a completely > new concept. What I did earlier was to write the OGR driver connection > strings as templates so that they can be used to create simple a dialog box > to ask the basic data from the user - this seems to work quite nicely.
Ari, "strings as templates"...you've done something very similar to what I suggested. > So, maybe what I want to say is that the file extension is just a part of > the issue. GDAL can get data from many other sources than local filesystem - > and creating a unified easy to use GUI for all those may be more interesting > and useful. The rant was not only about file extension, but about any GUI directly driven by output produced by --format[s]. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
